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As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has become more difficult to reconcile. Weight Gain During Pregnancy responds to the need for a reexamination of the 1990 Institute of Medicine guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy. It builds on the conceptual framework that underscored the 1990 weight gain guidelines and addresses the need to update them through a comprehensive review of the literature and independent analyses of existing databases. The book explores relationships between weight gain during pregnancy and a variety of factors (e.g., the mother's weight and height before preg...
This comprehensive and user-friendly volume focuses on the intersection between the fields of nutrition and infectious disease. It highlights the importance of nutritional status in infectious disease outcomes, and the need to recognize the role that nutrition plays in altering the risk of exposure and susceptibility to infection, the severity of the disease, and the effectiveness of treatment. Split into four parts, section one begins with a conceptual model linking nutritional status and infectious diseases, followed by primers on nutrition and immune function, that can serve as resources for students, researchers and practitioners. Section two provides accessible overviews of major catego...
The Nutritional Party Book is the ultimate wellness guide to improving your overall health. It’s also your essential companion on the journey to becoming a health expert in your own right. It entails 50 health tips including how to: ◦ Eat and drink healthier ◦ Control premature aging ◦ Prevent disease ◦ Maintain healthy lungs ◦ Prevent and relieve hangovers ◦ Protect your liver ◦ Boost and maintain a healthy brain ◦ Relieve stress ◦ Sleep better The book covers these health tips and many others with the help of hundreds of research studies and a holistic approach, which treats the body as a whole to improve your overall health, as taught by Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. Written by a health researcher who has spent over 30 years studying nutrition and walking the walk. The Nutritional Party Book is a practical guide born from real-world experience. (Note: eBook's price is normally $7.99; now marked down 25%.)
The United States spends billions of dollars annually on social and economic policies aimed at improving the lives of its citizens, but the health consequences associated with these policies are rarely considered. In Making Americans Healthier, a group of multidisciplinary experts shows how social and economic policies seemingly unrelated to medical well-being have dramatic consequences for the health of the American people. Most previous research concerning problems with health and healthcare in the United States has focused narrowly on issues of medical care and insurance coverage, but Making Americans Healthier demonstrates the important health consequences that policymakers overlook in t...
Breast milk is the model for infant feeding. Human milk is composed of a thousand substances, some of which have the function of nutrients, with others (the most numerous) having bioactive properties. Breast milk composition differs between mothers due to maternal background, immunity, nutrition, lifestyle, and other confounding factors. In addition, the same mother’s milk composition varies over time; colostrum contains the highest level of active proteins compared to transitional and mature breast milk to provide maximal immunity to the newborn. Indeed, the levels of bioactive proteins and macronutrients are higher in preterm milk than in full-term milk to promote their development and c...